When I try to burn a data cd from k3b, the app seems to hang. I have located the problem to cdrecord which hangs doing nothing right after a few seconds. It can not be killed after the call from k3b to cdrecord was made. I need to reboot.

And being root or user get the same result. I added the "burning" group and added my user and root to it. This did not help either.

I just tried: I am able to create a music cd from k3b probably because it uses "cdrdao" instead of cdrecord

My history:
I used to run ArchLinux until I had this same problem. I could not resolve the problem. Asked on the Archlinux forum and was not replied to.
So I reformatted the machine and installed Mandrake10.1 and did the updates. I think that it is easier to manage the system. But it had the problem also.
I thought it was k3b so I actually compiled the 0.11.20 version from source. But it did not help

QUESTION:
Could someone give me a direction to a resolution. How could I burn a data cd.

Thanks for any help. I just spent 10 hours redoing my machine but I am at the same exact place as before. Although on an other distro.

fancypiper

03-06-2005 10:47 PM

Will it burn from the command line (GUI's tend to hide the error messages)?

How about CD copying, ripping and burning? I can't figure it out.
# CD burning copying ripping info
Is it configured and what is the device? Command this to find out:
cdrecord -scanbus

It was not easy but I was able to copy the result of a command line. The system freeze after 3 seconds so i needed to be quick to copy/paste into a file. I had to "hard" reboot a few times before being able be successfull at it

I tried "ATAPI:1,1,0" then "1,0,0" and "0,0,0" which was the correct one
Note that after the call, even a "Control-Alt-Backspace" or "C-A-Delete" does not work.

Do you have any "hdc=ide-scsi" or similar in your lilo.conf (or menu.lst) ? If so, remove that.
Comment out any ide-scsi entry in /etc/modprobe.preload and /etc/modprobe.conf and reboot
Make sure you have ide-cd loaded ('modprobe ide-cd').
Try burning with 'cdrecord -dummy dev=/dev/hdc /home/username/MyDownloads/KNOPPIX_V3.7-2004-12-08-EN.iso'

- Peder

yvesm

03-08-2005 06:35 AM

Hello

I have checked the lilo, menu.lst and both modprobe files but there where no hdc=ide-scsi entries :(
I have run lsmod and the ide-cd is present.

I did try the command you have given and the result is below. It stops there with no more activity. At least the machine was not freezing so I could check what was running with KSysGuard. Nothing was growing in memory usage, cdrecord was using about 6 mb steady.

Here is the result command and the last line stayed there until I closed the terminal. Control-C did not stop it and I could not kill the cdrecord with the kill -9 command.

Does it give you more ideas. I did a search of the message "cdrecord: Input/output error. read buffer: scsi sendcmd: no error" and only found something that talked about DMA. But I do not know what to do or what it means.

yvesm

03-08-2005 07:15 AM

Following the reply above I was able to copy/paste the result of a "cdrecord -d -dummy dev=/dev/hdc /home/moi/MyDownloads/KNOPPIX_V3.7-2004-12-08-EN.isocdrecord" command. Then the machine froze again. But there is more output.

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Andthe machien froze and was hard rebooted a few minutes later

Thanks for helping me.

bunnadik

03-08-2005 09:36 AM

Try adding "nolapic noapic noacpi acpi=off" to the append line in lilo.conf , re-run lilo and reboot.
Perhaps this is another of those issues.

- Peder

yvesm

03-08-2005 05:55 PM

In lilo.conf, I had a line: append="acpi=ht splash=silent"
which I replaced with: append="nolapic noapic noacpi acpi=off splash=silent"
like you had instructed
But it did not make a difference. The system hangs.

What I do not understand is that in January, everything was fine. I used ArchLinux then and used Pacman to keep things updated and where OK. Then recently I needed to burn a cd and it was like now.

But after a week of trying to find an answer on Arch, I thought of using an old CD of Lindows Live 4.5.2 and I used it to burn the installation CDs of Mandrake that I downloaded. It was the only way to burn. I then freshly installed Mandrake 10.1 and it is still the same problem

So the old Lindows Live can burn CDs, the Mandrake can not. Something has happened since then (Udev, DMA, ??)

I think that now I am at the point of trowing the CD burner because It takes a long time to reboot with Lindows just to burn CD. (actually, I will give it to a friend, it works perfectly on a live CD)

Do you think that a DVD burner would not give the same problem than my cd burner. If you use one, which model works for you.

Thanks in advance,
Yves.

yvesm

03-10-2005 06:09 AM

I am bumping my thread once, to see if something more could be done before I giveup. Thanks Peder and fancypiper